Rav Moshe Frisko of Constantinople zt"l
הרב משה פריסקו זצ"ל
Tishrei 5 , 5568 / Tishrei 8 , 5568
Rav Moshe Frisko of Constantinople zt"l
A gaon who served as Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshiva in Constantinople / Istanbul, Turkey. He authored the work, Yadav Shel Moshe which is divided into five chapters on shu”t Responsa, named Yad Teshuva; on Shulchan Aruch, named Yadayim Sheniyos; Yad on Yad on the Rambam’s Yad Hachazaka; Yadayim Askaniyos on Shas; and Yad Mochichos, dershasos on the parshiyos.
He passed away on the 8th (some say 5th of Tishrei) תקס"ח while delivering a derasha.
Rav Raphael Chaim Binyamin Peretz author Zachrenu LeChaim was one of his disciples.
Divrei Torah of Rav Moshe Frisko of Constantinople zt"l
their names herald the upcoming redemption
"And these are the names of Bnei Yisroel," Rav Raphael David Mizrahi of Constantinople asks why the pasuk uses a seemingly superfluous vav it could have just said "These are the names," (Eleh Shemos) instead of "And these are the names" (Ve'Eleh Shemos) !? He teaches "I heard from my master our honorable venerated teacher Rav Haim Moshe Frisko that our sages taught that the redemption is hinted at in the very names of the tribes. That a certain sage explained to him that this means that the actual names themselves each hint at our redemption, for example: Reuven - means see how Hashem sees our nation's suffering [and therefore He will redeem us] and Shimon means that Hashem has heard our cries [in galus and hastens to redeem us] and so on etc. Therefore when the parsha continues to say that Hashem will remember us and redeem us it therefore says and these are the names of the Jewish people using vav hachibur as and to connect the two ideas - saying see how this very redemption is hinted at in their names." (Tzeir Radam 18b)